Ocean Park – Dragon roller coaster We are almost towards the end of our Chinese New Year holidays, and while going out of town for a holiday to a ski resort or to a beach would have been exciting and adventurous, I really enjoyed my holiday right here at home, in Hong Kong. We started… {Read More}

Strange title eh, you might think. After all what does Diwali, a traditional Indian Hindu festival have to do with Halloween, the 31st October costume parade? Quite a lot, I would say. “I hate this thing!” shouts my 6-year old as I make him try out his kurta for Diwali celebration in school. The same… {Read More}

So here it is right in front of me. Standing tall, well…as tall as me, in its full decked glory. All decorated with tinsels and ornaments and glittering with a garland of lights. It lets me know its presence through its woody pine fragrance every time I pass by. And makes me feels happy every… {Read More}

Diwali is the Festival of Lights. Every essay, every composition, every elocution in school about Diwali started with this line. And why not as the city lights up every year for this week long celebration. Falling in the month of October/November, Diwali brings along with it a certain kind of peace, a sense of hope,… {Read More}

21st March. A day to celebrate every year. A time when I always miss my home, my colony, my city. I am a Parsi by birth and although my early ancestors must have been born in Persia (now Iran) before they fled their country to escape the invasion of the Arabs, I and most of… {Read More}

With Easter holidays round the corner, memories of Easter egg hunts, decorating eggs and a beautiful spring in London come rushing back to my mind. We lived in London at that time and I was gearing up for the two week long Easter break at school. Not that I was dreading the holidays, in fact I… {Read More}

“It’s Merry Christmas eve Mummy!” shouted out my elder son in absolute glee as we headed back home from an early dinner tonight (24th December). Both my sons were so excited to get Santa’s gift the next day that they couldn’t wait to get home and go to sleep! A big refreshing change for me… {Read More}

Can’t believe we are in December already! This year’s gone by in the blink of an eye. Seems like yesterday when we moved to Hong Kong from London. We have been riding on a roller coaster ever since. Settling down in our service apartment, making new friends, waiting for the school admission, hunting for our… {Read More}

Here’s wishing all my readers and their families a very Happy Diwali and a prosperous New Year! Being here in Hong Kong it’s very difficult to get a feel of India’s biggest and much celebrated festival. Here’s sharing my little bit of my celebration today. 6:00: Woke up early. Did rangoli outside my house and… {Read More}